For the first time in his professional career, Roman Josi has scored a hat trick.<\/p>\n
The Nashville Predators captain scored the first three goals of Switzerland’s 9-0 romping of Hungary on Saturday.<\/p>\n
It’s the Swiss’s second 9-0 shutout and are still undefeated in preliminary play with one game left, against Finland on Tuesday. Switzerland, the host, is looking to win its first ever World Championship.<\/p>\n
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With 1:51 left in the first period, Josi toe-dragged the puck past a defender and let a shot go from the middle of the right face-off circle that beat goalie Leonard Genoni on the left post for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
29 seconds into the second period, Josi forced a turnover in the neutral zone, forcing a 3-on-1 break the other way. He’d keep the puck to himself and rip a shot from the left side that beat Genoni on the glove for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Less than a minute after Josi scored, Bence Stipsicz was called for hooking, putting Switzerland on the power play. With 30 seconds left in the man advantage, Josi let a slapshot go from the high slot that beat Leonard on the glove side for a third time.<\/p>\n
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He wasn’t done there as he had an assist on a Simon Knak goal to make it 9-0, finishing the day with three goals and an assist. It’s his second three-plus point performance of this tournament.<\/p>\n
In total, Josi has eight points (four goals and four assists) in six games with a plus\/minus of plus-12.<\/p>\n
Switzerland’s final matchup against Finland in preliminary play with see Josi likely face-off against Predators teammate, Justus Annuen, who has become the Finn’s go-to in the net this tournament.<\/p>\n
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Through three games, Annunen has a 1.33 goals-against average, .938 save-percentage and a 3-0-0 record.<\/p>\n
That game will be played on Tuesday at 1:20 p.m. CST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in his professional career, Roman Josi has scored a hat trick. The Nashville Predators…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5119],"tags":[25579,5,2409,231,5281,4,2410,1501,6711],"class_list":["post-582768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-annunen","tag-hockey","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-nhl","tag-predators","tag-roman-josi","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116630909327750347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}